Haiti: Technical Support for Strengthening the Judicial System In 2013, the OAS charged JSCA with developing a consultancy on and providing technical support to strengthen the Haitian judicial system, which had been impacted by various political, social, humanitarian, health and economic circumstances over the past decade. In 2017, following several exploratory visits to Port-au-Prince to monitor the work of the judiciary, especially in the area…
Research and Estudies | Evaluation of the Impact of the New Management Model of Guatemala’s Public Prosecution Service
Evaluation of the Impact of the New Management Model of Guatemala’s Public Prosecution Service In 2014, JSCA published the report “Evaluation of the Impact of the New Management Model of Guatemala’s Public Prosecution Service” with funding from the Open Society Justice Initiative. It addressed the organizational changes implemented during the term of Prosecutor General Claudia Paz y Paz. To that end, the research team visited…
Research and Studies | A New Criminal Justice System for Uruguay
A New Criminal Justice System for Uruguay Uruguay’s new criminal justice system entered into force in November 2017. While JSCA was not involved with the original design of this reform, it had the privilege of contributing to the latest legislative effort, which was meant to better define a criminal procedure model and implement a complete training plan that would allow officials, operators and institutions to…
Research and Projects | Mission to Support the Fight against Corruption and Impunity in Honduras (MACCIH- OAS)
Research and Projects | Mission to Support the Fight against Corruption and Impunity in Honduras (MACCIH- OAS) At the request of the OAS, JSCA undertook the challenge of providing multilateral technical support for Honduras for the first time in its history. In collaboration with the Mission to Support the Fight against Corruption and Impunity in Honduras (MACCIH-OAS), we developed proposals for the country’s criminal justice…
Research and Projects | Recognition of Economic, Social, Cultural and Environmental Rights (ESCR) in the Countries that are Signatories to the San Salvador Protocol and Other Countries in Latin America
Recognition of Economic, Social, Cultural and Environmental Rights (ESCR) in the Countries that are Signatories to the San Salvador Protocol and Other Countries in Latin America In January of 2019, JSCA and the German Cooperation Agency GIZ DIRAJus launched a project focused on understanding how recognition of economic, social, cultural and environmental rights works in the Latin American signatory countries of the San Salvador Protocol…